Workers with silicosis win legal victory in South Africa
In South Africa, the struggle for justice for former gold miners suffering from silicosis has taken a step forward with a landmark judgement on 13 May, which has paved the way for a class-action lawsuit to proceed against 30 gold mining companies named as respondents....
Mining, Murder and a British Millionaire: Protestors stand in solidarity with South African communities opposing mining
Report by Hal Rhoades, The Gaia Foundation Protestors from several organisations gathered in London yesterday to call on British millionaire Graham Edwards to help end Australian mining company Mineral Resources Limited (MRC) involvement in a controversial Xolobeni...
Follow the Money – From Pondoland to London Wall
Assassinated activist ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe by Andy Higginbottom (*) At first sight the struggle of the Amadiba community in Pondoland, on South Africa’s Eastern Cape Wild Coast, to stop Australian company MRC mining on their land has nothing to do with Graham...